What is 70/51 + 2/4?
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Step 1Can you add yet? Nope! The denominators don't match. We need a common denominator. So next we take both denominators and multiply them. Next, take each numerator and multiply it by the denominator of the other term. So, we multiply 70 by 4, and get 280, then we multiply 51 by 4 and get 204. Now for the second term. You multiply 2 by 51, and get 102, then multiply 51 by 4 and get 204. We now have a new problem, that looks like this:
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Step 2Since our denominators match, we can add the numerators. 280 + 102 = 382 That gives us the sum, which is
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Step 3Now, do we need to simplify this fraction? First, we attempt to divide it by 2... Are both the numerator and the denominator evenly divisible by 2? Yes! So we reduce it:
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